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- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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priesthood Archive
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Unglorifying Motherhood
Posted on May 8, 2014 | 18 CommentsApril showers are over and May flowers are starting to bloom. This beautiful time of year has many people reflecting on the gratitude they feel for their many blessings in life. It is only appropriate, then, that we show this gratitude by celebrating […] -
Gender Equality and the Mormon Church: Why Progressive Mormon Men are the Problem
Posted on January 31, 2014 | 59 CommentsHere's the reason you're the problem: You benefit from all the perks of patriarchy, but you won't own it in a way that motivates others to change it. You want to smooth out its rough edges, polish it up a bit, so you're not embarrassed by it. -
Equality is not a Feeling, 13.0
Posted on January 22, 2014 | 9 CommentsToday’s post is kind of cheating, since it’s just a new visual depiction of data from the Equality is not a Feeling, 3.0 post, but this image (submitted by a Facebook friend) is so powerful, it deserves its own post. Here is the male-female […] -
Equality is not a Feeling, 12.0
Posted on January 15, 2014 | 6 CommentsThe Equality is not a Feeling, 10.0 post teased out some data about the doctrinal density of General Conference talks given by male versus female church leaders. Today’s post is an extension of that post. Using the metric described in Equality is not […] -
Race, Priesthood and Infallibility
Posted on December 9, 2013 | 10 CommentsSo what we have is a page that just showed up on the "official" church website a few days ago that states that we now believe that all men are equal. Do we get a cookie for showing up to the party 50 years late? -
Equality is Not a Feeling, 9.0
Posted on December 4, 2013 | 21 CommentsToday’s illustration depicts the official duties of Mormon young men and women, ages 12-18. Each group has duties and responsibilities specific to their class that are not listed here. This chart depicts the official duties and responsibilities that each group has that are […] -
Boys, Safety Patrol and the Priesthood
Posted on November 21, 2013 | 43 CommentsA couple weeks ago, four out of five of us slept through our alarms. I rushed into Stuart’s room to see how he wanted to proceed. Because Stuart gets super anxious when our routine is disrupted or altered, I was going to let […] -
Ride to Priesthood Session with Ordain Women
Posted on October 27, 2013 | 4 CommentsA couple weeks ago, I flew to Salt Lake City to attend the all-male priesthood session of the General Conference of my church. For the record, plenty of Mormons fly to SLC to attend General Conference. It’s kind of like taking a hajj […] -
Not the Same Mormons
Posted on October 8, 2013 | 18 Comments"When I was a kid I loved to read fiction and non-fiction books about the Old West. There was always a colorful blend of characters: cowboys and Indians, mountain men and pioneers, gunslingers and prospectors, Anglos, French, and Mexicans. One character type that occasionally appeared was "the Mormons." These were an angry mob of bandits led by their mustachioed outlaw leader, "Joe Smith," who went around robbing and harassing everyone else. I was and always have been LDS, but I didn't recognize anything of myself, my fellow ward members, or the teachings of the Church in these Mormons that I read about. In fact, I didn't even realize until years later that the authors were even attempting to depict members of the LDS faith in their books. I just assumed that there was another, unrelated group out there also known as the Mormons." -
Ordain Mormon Women
Posted on October 1, 2013 | 5 CommentsDoves and Serpents just received word that the fantabulous Cate has penned a song for the women (and men) of Ordain Women, who plan to stand in line this Saturday, October 5, in order to get into the priesthood session of General Conference. If […] -
Women, the Priesthood, and the Cookie Jar
Posted on September 25, 2013 | 16 CommentsWe don't like to frame it that way. We like to talk about how men and women are equal partners (as long as it's understood that men "preside"). -
My response to a Letter of Kindly-Intended Correction Regarding My Pro-Female Ordination Stance
Posted on September 9, 2013 | 72 CommentsBy Spunky On October 5th, there are a group of Mormon women who will go to the Priesthood Session of General Conference and request entry. The action is meant to draw attention to the inequality of a male-only presiding priesthood, and draw attention to the […] -
The Next Generation
Posted on August 10, 2013 | 18 CommentsI’ve written plenty here about the (what feel to me like unrelenting) gender inequities in the Mormon church. And then I got tired of it. I just ran out of fight. I feel like I want to take my energy somewhere else, […] -
June: A Tough Pull
Posted on May 31, 2013 | 12 CommentsThe June lesson line-up for the Young Women and Young Men of the church is a tough pull. First, in Sunday School, a whole month of Sundays (there are five in June) on the priesthood. My personal favorite bullet point is the first one: […] -
Guest Post Invitation: Feeling “Less-Than” at Church
Posted on April 22, 2013 | 6 CommentsThis boy wasn't mean. But he was very clear that I, as a woman, had no place in any part of that Sacrament ritual or preparation. That it would be wrong for me to be. He seemed frightened that the very fact of my touching that cloth might have destroyed the sanctity of the Sacrament. -
Redeeming Asherah
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 8 CommentsBy Michelle Wiener (aka, Michelle Mormon) Today at work, the question of God’s gender came up, and I replied that I believed God has both a male and female persona. My colleague proceeded to ask me what the female persona’s name was. I replied, “I […] -
41 Psaltery & Lyre: Angela Felsted, “Sons”
Posted on January 17, 2013 | 3 Comments"I believe / you put the compass in me, / you are the needle / that directs us on the / path to godhood; . . . " -
45 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Pants-Wearing Women Running Wild
Posted on December 12, 2012 | 21 CommentsThat, my friends, is how you maintain a cultural norm, and in that context, press releases telling women they can decide for themselves what to wear are meaningless. -
28 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Cognitive Dissonance 101
Posted on April 30, 2012 | 19 CommentsI have remarked more than once that Mormons are often able to juggle contradictory ideas without, apparently, even being aware of the internal tensions. . . . -
A Preview of Things to Come?
Posted on March 12, 2012 | 4 CommentsMy son is the only boy in his Primary class, which makes him the only soon-to-be Young Man in the Valiant 11 group. He will be turning twelve this spring, which means he was also the only boy invited to the ward Priesthood Preview event, […] -
20 A Mormon in the Cheap Seats: Half a Church
Posted on February 19, 2012 | 60 CommentsI have brought my daughter, dressed up and nervous with anticipation, gift in hand, to a birthday party where the boys will decide what games to play and what the rules will be. . .